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Windows Phone (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/wikipedia

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It makes me really sad that Microsoft gave up on the windows phone as it had the best user interface and the performance was great. It was an easy to use third option to Android and IOS. Although not open source.

2 more years and Postmarket OS will be just as old as the windows phone was when it shutdown.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They fully fucked up not putting down a bunch of money to get apps in their store. I had a Nokia Lumia 920 with Windows Phone and it was awesome, the UI was so nice, the performance was good. But it had zero apps, it couldn't do anything, it honestly kinda sucked. Sure it had Microsoft Office, so that was nice, but other than that it didn't have shit. There wasn't even a way to use the flash as a flashlight, which were pretty standard apps everyone had on other OSes at the time.

[–] Letme 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What most people didn't get tho was that the mobile internet actually worked on WP, so you didn't actually need all the missing apps. You could actually use web sites. That said, all MS had to do was allow Android apps to work on WP, but they were too damn stubborn.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

all MS had to do was allow Android apps to work on WP

Through an emulator, which would be even slower than the app running on an Android phone of the time, ruining the smooth WP experience? By making Windows Phone an Android skin?

[–] Letme 1 points 1 day ago

Project Astoria was the last option I know of, apps ran natively.